2006-12-30 23:33:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Men never ask for directions!
It's 3C not 2B!!!
2006-12-30 23:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....
80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.
I've come to two conclusions recently:
1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.
First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.
Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.
So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.
To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....
2006-12-31 14:42:59 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune.
They don't write dialogue like that anymore.
Mind you whether someone, on the brink of committing suicide would speak with such lucidity is another matter!
2006-12-31 07:38:41 · answer #3 · answered by Raymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus . It may help you to resolve your existentialist angst...
2007-01-01 08:33:55 · answer #4 · answered by Ru 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how happy or unhappy you are. Everyone has the right to live, and so should have the right to die too.
2006-12-31 07:51:07 · answer #5 · answered by duckee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toss a coin, easy.
2006-12-31 07:41:46 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely 'to be.' Live your life as truly and as fully as you can get. 'Be' yourself and enjoy what you do. That is the ANSWER.
2006-12-31 08:51:24 · answer #7 · answered by The Global Geezer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a consequency of right or wrong deed.
2006-12-31 08:51:07 · answer #8 · answered by angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your being Noble now!
2006-12-31 07:36:53 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I vote for you not to be cause you are an As_ H__e!
2006-12-31 10:19:41 · answer #10 · answered by lill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋